abandoned...{29/52}
This week's Me Again Monday theme was to challenge yourself to do something you've never done before in a self portrait. I have wanted to do a shot in an abandoned building for some time now, but have never had the opportunity. I'm pretty bold and don't get scared too easily, but I am cautious. And I think it's a smart thing to do to have someone with me going into an abandoned building.
It just so happened that a photographer I know posted some shots after going to an abandoned church last weekend. I asked John about it and he was great enough to organize another meet-up there this weekend after I mentioned it.
When we arrived, we found out that a film crew had rented the place out for filming. After some sweet talking, they let us shoot for a while until they were ready to get started (they were waiting for their truck to arrive). We tried covering as much ground as we could, with the four of us sticking together.
I'm not really particularly creative at posing and putting myself into scenes and I was struggling with each area we were shooting at. I knew that I wanted to take a selfie there, but I was feeling the pressure of the possibility of being asked to leave any minute. Time wasn't a luxury we had that day. Also, because of time constraints, we all had left our lighting gear in the cars so I was limited in some areas due to lack of light.
When we came upon this hallway, with the light coming in, I knew this was it and I had to put myself in the frame here. In the end, I preferred the color version, but I included a different pose and crop in black and white in the comments.
The other challenge for me this day was having to get up early to go. I had worked the night before and had gotten home late and needed to get up really early in order to get ready and meet everyone. So I met this challenge by reaching out to someone to shoot somewhere I wanted to shoot as well as pushing myself to get up early when I really wanted to sleep in on a Saturday.
I posted one other shot so far from that day, you can view it here. The weekend has been really busy with not so much time for processing or Flickring.
For Me Again Monday Theme for Monday August 22th - challenge yourself
abandoned...{29/52}
This week's Me Again Monday theme was to challenge yourself to do something you've never done before in a self portrait. I have wanted to do a shot in an abandoned building for some time now, but have never had the opportunity. I'm pretty bold and don't get scared too easily, but I am cautious. And I think it's a smart thing to do to have someone with me going into an abandoned building.
It just so happened that a photographer I know posted some shots after going to an abandoned church last weekend. I asked John about it and he was great enough to organize another meet-up there this weekend after I mentioned it.
When we arrived, we found out that a film crew had rented the place out for filming. After some sweet talking, they let us shoot for a while until they were ready to get started (they were waiting for their truck to arrive). We tried covering as much ground as we could, with the four of us sticking together.
I'm not really particularly creative at posing and putting myself into scenes and I was struggling with each area we were shooting at. I knew that I wanted to take a selfie there, but I was feeling the pressure of the possibility of being asked to leave any minute. Time wasn't a luxury we had that day. Also, because of time constraints, we all had left our lighting gear in the cars so I was limited in some areas due to lack of light.
When we came upon this hallway, with the light coming in, I knew this was it and I had to put myself in the frame here. In the end, I preferred the color version, but I included a different pose and crop in black and white in the comments.
The other challenge for me this day was having to get up early to go. I had worked the night before and had gotten home late and needed to get up really early in order to get ready and meet everyone. So I met this challenge by reaching out to someone to shoot somewhere I wanted to shoot as well as pushing myself to get up early when I really wanted to sleep in on a Saturday.
I posted one other shot so far from that day, you can view it here. The weekend has been really busy with not so much time for processing or Flickring.
For Me Again Monday Theme for Monday August 22th - challenge yourself